How to solve Hogwarts Legacy door puzzles

Hogwarts Legacy puzzle doors seem impossible to open when you first find them, but that's only because no help, and the thing you need to solve ity all is just a random item you might find Or not.

While the spell Alohomora helps you unlock doors like the Hogwarts Legacy level 1 locks and above, this is a straight forward puzzle. You just need to be able to count to nine to solve it, as those creature drawings and symbols match up to numbers, and opening them is just a case of doing the sum those numbers give you.

Before we go any further, if you're looking for help with other challenges we've got guides on everything from Hogwarts Legacy quiz answers to Hogwarts Legacy Merlin Trials, and plenty more. For now though, let's crack those Hogwarts Legacy puzzle door sums and get to the high-level loot.

That's the short version at least. That's explained in more detail below but for now let's take a look at the whole process from start to finish.

How to find the Hogwarts Legacy puzzle doors code

There is actually a piece of paper that explains how to solve the puzzle doors in Hogwarts Legacy, but you're never really told about. It's basically down to luck as if or when you eventually stumble on it.

You don't need to find this cipher page to open the doors if you know what you're doing, but if you do want to get it follow these instructions:

1. Fast travel to the Divination Classroom Floo Flame, which is within the Library Annex.
2. Turn around and head back through the door behind you and along the wooden walkway

3. When you reach a junction, take the right turning and go along until you see a small landing with a chalkboard next to a puzzle door

4. 4. Look to the right of the chalkboard and you'll see a blue box. Search it and you'll find the cipher page

Once you find the code you'll see it explains that each magical beasts around the outside of the doors has a numerical value. They seem to correlate to the number of legs or appendages that creature has, although number 6 and 7 are a bit confusing. Essentially all you need to do is count around the edge of the door to give each symbol a value, starting from zero.

1. Demiguise
2. Unicorn
3. Graphorn
4. Runespoor
5. Fwooper
6. Quintaped
7. Salamander
8. Grindylow
9. Spider/Acromantula
10. Hydra

How to open Hogwarts Legacy puzzle doors

As I mentioned earlier, you don't need the explanation to open the puzzle doors. It's a clue you can find. Even without it you simply count the creatures around the edge, starting with zero, to find out what number each animal symbolizes.

To actually open the door you need to interact with the door to reveal the puzzle. this will show you two triangle patterns that spell out an equation. You then need the three outside numbers to add up to the inner number, with some numbers are represented by beasts instead.

So, let's take this door as an example:

For the top triangle, it works out as:

2 + Hydra (3) + ? = 9

So you'd need the ? to equal 4, which is the owl-like symbol. Turn the ? block to that.

For the bottom triangle, it works out as:

0 + 1 + ?? = 4

So that means the ?? must need to be 3, or the Hydra symbol. Turn the ?? to that.

With those in place the door will swing open. It's simply just about getting all the numbers around each triangle to add up to the one in the centre. Easy when you know what the beasts actually mean. Behind the Arithmancy puzzle doors in Hogwarts Legacy is a room with gear and chests for you to loot.